V. H. Yang

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“parable of the ghost” by V. H. Yang

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There’s a line from a poem by felon-turned-poet Reginald Dwayne Betts I can never forget:  Sometimes, there is nothing— just days and their ruthless abundance.  I don’t remember anything else from the poem. In fact, I don’t even know the poem’s title. The only reason why I know the poet’s name is because we read his book in ninth grade English while learning citations, and since my teacher was a perpetually-bitter adult who enjoyed torturing fourteen-year-olds, we wrote them by hand. My point is, I don’t have any real connect...

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PFP: “Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog.” Caspar David Friedrich, 1818